The proclamation extends American sovereignty not only over the surface of the ocean, but also over "the airspace over the territorial sea, as well as its bed and subsoil."

The U.S. would benefit from the convention's extending coastal sovereignty from 3 to 12 miles, with full control of fishing and mining rights within a 200-mile zone.

When the Kansas-Nebraska Act threatened to extend popular sovereignty into the newly created Kansas Territory, Eli Thayer, a second-term Congressman from Massachusetts, hatched the idea of an Emigrant Aid Company in the winter of 1853-4.

Sovereignty for Hawaiians A bill that for the first time would extend sovereignty to the native Hawaiian people is poised for a vote in the United States Senate despite opposition from many Republicans, who denounce the measure as unworkable.

A bill pending in Congress to extend sovereignty to Native Hawaiian people could alter the outcome of the case if it becomes law, Ms. Sullivan, the lawyer for the schools, said.

Africa's reconfiguration, these experts say, is already well under way but involves a more subtle process in which regional economic and military powers emerge and express their hegemony without seeking to extend outright sovereignty beyond their borders.

The JAWS facility extended Canadian sovereignty over a large uninhabited area which Canada claimed as its sovereign territory.

In 2011, however, he abstained from a vote brought by National Union MKs that would extend sovereignty to Jewish towns in the West Bank.

In 1980, nearly all nations removed their embassies from Jerusalem in response to the passage by the Knesset of the Jerusalem Law extending Israeli sovereignty over the entire city.

SPORTSSUNDAY Sovereignty for Hawaiians Congress appears poised to extend to native Hawaiians sovereignty similar to that held by American Indians.